Docker

If you’re working with infrastructure its good practice to describe it using code so that it is reproducible and consistent across servers and development environments. I’ve used Chef for quite some time and feel it is a pretty natural way to represent the source of truth for your servers, the packages installed on them, and their configuration. Chef can also be used as a provisioning tool, to bring your servers to life configured exactly to your specifications.
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I’ve been reverse engineering a new application setup and seemed like an appropriate place to try out docker. Spinning up a lightweight and reproducible environment is the goal and containerization is a reasonably efficient way to accomplish that. As I was looking into a problem with getting some services running properly, with little debug output and sparse documentation, I reached for the old trusty strace to see what was going on.
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